Commentary
A person-centred approach to decision-making and care for persons living with dementia
Assessing mental capacity in persons living with dementia (PLWDs) in high-stakes decision-making is becoming more frequent amid an ageing population with a rising prevalence...
Beyond BMI: The Janus-like effect of muscle versus fat on midlife women’s health
Janus—the Roman goddess of natural cycles, change and transitions—is an appropriate symbol for the life-changing shift from the reproductive period to the post-menopausal stage...
Navigating the evolving landscape in the prescribing of medications for insomnia in Singapore: Principles...
The risks of prescribing benzodiazepines and Z-drugs for insomnia are well recognised by regulators, where the prescribing of such medications in contravention of guidelines...
Transforming medical education in the AI era: Balancing technological expertise with humanistic care in...
Standing at the precipice of a new era in healthcare, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into clinical practice is progressing at an unprecedented...
Towards a unified approach: Standardising radiological diagnosis and grading of vertebral compression fractures
Vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) are frequently missed on frontal and lateral chest radiographs.1 Even with abdominal computed tomography, where sagittal imaging is readily available,...
Health District at Queenstown: Catalyst for translational research
Ageing societies dominating global demographics is not new. However, the pace of global population ageing is causing disquietude. In 2017, the global population over...
The potential of RNA therapeutics in dermatology
Graphic design by Liu Yujia
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) therapeutics involving, among others, microRNAs (miRNAs), small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and/or antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) hold great potential...
Call for a Singapore National Action Plan for Sepsis (SNAPS): Stop sepsis, save lives
Sepsis is a life-threatening organ dysfunction syndrome caused by a dysregulated host response to an infection.1 It affects up to 48.9 million people globally...
Artificial intelligence in medicine: Ethical, social and legal perspectives
“Our future is a race between the growing power of our technology and the wisdom with which we use it. Let's make sure that...
Value the patient as a person: Answering the call for a person-centred model of...
There has been a change in patients’ attitudes towards healthcare professionals in recent decades, coupled with an increasingly evident shift in the care paradigm....